OSAKA -- The Osaka High Court dismissed an appeal Tuesday filed by 12 Korean families facing eviction from the wartime forced laborers' squatter community of Utoro in the city of Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, upholding a lower court ruling.
The Kyoto District Court has issued rulings since January ordering four of five groups comprising the 68 Korean households being sued to vacate the property.
The high court delivered Tuesday's ruling on the first two groups, accounting for 12 families who had appealed the district court decisions.